Neither fish nor fowl. Fairy tale 'Little Mermaid' psychologist's eyes #9. Competition "My Favourite Fairy Tale"

The touching, sad, 'multystoried' fairy tale in which an underwater sea fantastic being the mermaid chooses mortal human life and at the end of the fairy tale turns into air elements, turning into the daughter Vozdukha. That is events consistently develop in three elements: water - surface-to-air.

I re-read the fairy tale, trying to find signs of some frustration in character and behavior of the Little Mermaid. Did not find. Absolutely adequate girl, then girl. Grew in love of the grandmother, having early lost mother. The father was strict, but not the tyrant and not the abuser. The sea tsar with a heap of duties who is bringing up alone six daughters.

The sea tsar very long time ago became a widow/widower, and with economy at him his old woman mother — the woman clever, but very proud of the sort filled; she carried the whole dozen of oysters whereas grandees had the right to carry only six on a tail. In general it was the person worthy, especially because very much loved the little granddaughters. All six princesses were very pretty Little Mermaids, but was best of all most younger, gentle and transparent as a rose-petal, with deep, blue as the sea, eyes. But also at it as other mermaids, had no legs but only a fish tail.

Running forward I want to tell what main idea I saw in the fairy tale and what I love it for. This tale that the full-fledged love and the happy relations can be only between beings from one pack and any victim for the sake of love will not make you happy.

So, the Little Mermaid - an unearthly being. Younger of six sisters who are brought up in love and honor. Their elements - the sea, the ocean. It is all the same what to be born and live in one country, but know that there are other countries. And the Little Mermaid knew that there is Earth, people with a human soul, and absolutely other life. And mermaids were allowed to look at this life only on reaching their underwater majority in 15 years. The Little Mermaid was the prettiest of all six daughters, but still had unique talent - the first in beauty voice and ability to sing.

At last and to it there were fifteen years!

— There now, grew up also you! — the grandmother, the Queen mother told. — Come here, it is necessary to dress up also you as other sisters!

And she put on to the Little Mermaid the head a wreath from white pearl lilies — each petal was a pearl half, then, for designation of a high office of the princess, ordered to cling to her tail to eight oysters.

— Yes it is sick! — the Little Mermaid told.

— For the sake of beauty it is necessary and to suffer a little bit! — the old woman told.

Ah, with what pleasure the Little Mermaid would throw off from herself all these attires and a heavy wreath: krasnenky florets from its garden went her much more, but there is nothing to do!

So, the Little Mermaid goes to get acquainted with other world - terrestrial. This world fascinates her, in the same way as we are fascinated by the new unfamiliar country until we do not begin to live and pay in it taxes On the trouble the girl falls in love with the beautiful terrestrial young man whom she sees at first only from far away. This is the prince. He celebrated the Birthday by the ship and did not suspect that he became an object of attention and love of the unearthly beauty.




The case with ship-wreck became fatal. So the Little Mermaid would dream, and then would return to sea depths and would find to herself the suitable sea groom. But the Destiny her was predetermined. The prince got to the sea from the destroyed, sinking ship, and the Little Mermaid saved it.

Can you imagine when an object of your illusory and inaccessible love appears in your hands literally? You save - you embrace - you kiss …

I did not see here a notorious psychological Triangle of Karpman because there is no third link here - the Persecutor. This story about Love from capital letter to the inaccessible man for the sake of whom the Little Mermaid decides to become a terrestrial being.

But it is impossible by definition. It is all the same, as though the alien decided to become a person. Or the European would decide to become Chinese. Or on the contrary. Having been born in one environment with genetic baggage and the cultural code we will never become for 100% in others country where other mentality, other language and other genetic code. We can adapt, learn to speak without accent, to fall in love, marry, but … It will be the union of two beings from different packs. To us, terrestrial people it is simpler, we find a common language, we unite hearts and at the spiritual level and if the pack accepts - there is a chance to get accustomed and become the.

The history of rescue of the prince is symbolical. All emotions of the Little Mermaid are adequate, and the fact that she risked life, saving the beloved, speaks once again about her big soul. She thought later that having become the person, she will get a human soul, but upon it already was with such soul which cannot be received with a terrestrial body as it was promised later by the sea witch who turned her terrestrial girl.

At first the Little Mermaid very much was delighted to the fact that it will get to them on a bottom now, but then remembered that people cannot live in water and that it can come to the palace of her father only the dead. No, no, he should not die! …

The Little Mermaid cast away hair from a forehead of the prince and kissed him on a high beautiful forehead; it seemed to her that it is similar to the marble boy that stood at it in a garden; she kissed him once again and with all the heart wished that he survived.

Having carefully transported the insensible prince to the quiet gulf, the Little Mermaid left it there. Also observed from outside as local girls found it and took away from the coast. The prince did not learn who saved him, but in his subconsciousness was depicted an image of the beautiful girl who saved it.




Further the trash begins. Psychological, moral, emotional.

There is an opinion that Hans Christiaan Andersen in the years of work on this fairy tale fell in love with the guy, but this same-sex love was meek and did not bring to Andersen either happiness, or joy. Brought one emotional pain. And this pain is read in the fairy tale.

Further the senseless victims for the sake of love will begin. In the beginning the Little Mermaid will offer the sea body for the sake of human harmonious maiden legs. After it will offer the fine unique voice, having allowed the wicked witch to cut off the magic uvula. Then, having broken the ban of the father, the Little Mermaid will choose life in a terrestrial body.

— As! — the old woman answered. — They die too, and their century is even shorter than ours. We live three hundred years, but when to us the end comes, from us there is one foam sea, we have even no graves close to us. To us it is not given immortal soul, and we never will revive for new life any more; we, as this green reed: uprooted, it will not turn green again any more! People, on the contrary, have immortal soul which lives forever, even after the body turns into ashes; it departs then to the blue sky, there, to clear asterisks! As we can rise from a bottom of the sea and uvidat the earth where there live people, so they can rise after death to the unknown blissful countries which to us to see never!

— Why we have no immortal soul! — sadly the Little Mermaid told. — I would give all the hundreds of years in one day of human life to take then part in heavenly pleasure of people.

In this subject line the esoteric subject line about regeneration of souls and aspiration to divine spiritual level is obviously looked through.

In a terrestrial body the Little Mermaid had some sufferings. She was mute, each step on new legs to her brought intolerable pain, and the addiction of people to dances led to constant bleedings a foot. But the impossibility to make a declaration of love to the prince and to become his wife was most sick. These damned conditions of magic - marriage of the prince with other girl doomed the Little Mermaid to death.

The prince took attachment the Little Mermaid for sincere friendship, and upon he could not fall in love with it. The illusory dream of the girl who saved it owned him, and he chose that from terrestrial princesses that seemed to it similar to the Little Mermaid. While the Little Mermaid was here she, nearby.

Was not at the prince of inclination to it as to the girl. He even suggested it to wear men's wear. One more gender deviation and next reason for emotional pain.

Since the moment as the Little Mermaid saw the prince and fell in love with him, she one for another made a sacrifice, in exchange getting only pain, pain and pain. A way of terrestrial sufferings - here about what this fairy tale.

And when the prince chose other girl for a marriage, thereby dooming the Little Mermaid to inevitable death, the Destiny gave chance to the Little Mermaid to survive at the price of the death of the beloved. Again these conditions. Devil conditions.

By the ship everything abated, one navigator remained with a wheel. The Little Mermaid leaned the white hands against a board and, having turned back facing the East, began to wait for the first beam of the sun which as she knew, had to kill her. And suddenly she saw in the sea of the sisters; they were pale, as well as she, but their long magnificent hair did not flutter more but wind: they were cut off.

— We gave our hair to the witch that she helped us to save you from death! It gave us this knife; do you see what sharp? Before there ascends the sun, you have to stick it into heart of the prince, and when his warm blood scatters to you on legs, they will grow together in a fish tail again, you will become a mermaid again, will go down to us in the sea and will live three hundred years before you become salty sea foam. But hurry! Either he, or you — one of you has to die till the sunrise!

But the Little Mermaid - the light person. And she did not betray the love, refused temptation.

As a result formally all kept the own opinion: the prince survived and married, the Little Mermaid was saved by the Highest forces and turned her into the Daughter Vozdukha, having spared eternal life

— To whom do I go? — she asked, rising by air, and its voice sounded the same marvelous air music what is not able to transmit any terrestrial sounds.

— To daughters of air! — air creations answered it. — The mermaid has no immortal soul, and it cannot get it differently as thanks to love of the person to it. Its eternal existence depends on others will. Daughters of air have no immortal soul too, but they can get it to themselves good deeds. We arrive to tropical countries where people perish from hot, infected with pestilence air, and we cast a cool. We extend fragrance of flowers in air and we bring with ourselves to people healing and a joy. After three hundred years during which we create feasible good we receive immortal soul in an award and we can take part in eternal pleasure of the person. …
By the ship during this time everything started moving again, and the Little Mermaid uvidat as the prince with the bride looked for her. Sadly they looked at the worrying sea foam, precisely knew that the Little Mermaid rushed to waves. Invisible, the Little Mermaid kissed the beauty the bride bluntly, smiled to the prince and rose together with other children of air to pink clouds …

It seems everything is good, and the aftertaste remained because all of us want to feel happy in this mortal life here and now, but not somewhere there in heaven.